That's sweet, but it doesn't mean that every city/town on that list now has coverage
Never said that...
It is up in my area.. but I think it's a work in progress.
One issue I have noticed is that handoffs between base stations are not very graceful.
I can force it to change base stations sitting here now and if a stream is playing it will drop as soon as the buffer empties and it has to reconnect to the stream.
The second issue is that it seems very very bursty at times.
I think these are issues with the mobile speedtest app. (yes even after the update.)
The mobile speedtest app reports a ping into the Columbia, SC speed test server @ ~130ms yet I can tether (USB) and run the desktop version on the client computer and only get ~50ms to the same server.
The speeds reported on the mobile version range from 8-10 megabits down and 3-5 up, while the desktop version reports upwards of 18-20 megabits down and 4-5 up.
That's quite a difference....
Using the speedtest app in the browser on the phone (change your user agent) gives me results that are identical to the desktop version running on the tether.
Using the speakeasy speed test on both ives me identical results.
The only conclusion that I can draw is that Verizon needs to work on base station handoffs and the ookla people need to work on their app
UPDATE: looks like they fixed the app. there was an update on the market that resolved the dependencies between mobile and browser.
The mobile app results is now inline with the browser results for me.
Based on all of the 1 star reviews people were giving it I would say they had a problem